Injustice For All -Greed, Theft and Apathy-

Americaland,

 I know that greed is universal and everyone has limitations as to how well they hold moral obligation and dignity versus their willingness to indulge. Even if indulgence of their desires happen to involve petty theft or reckless abandonment of their pride. However, it never ceases to absolutely astonish the FUCK out of me when a person of a kind and caring repertoire  will flat out cave in at the chance to snatch some cash.

 I witnessed something degrading today; I found the whole situation a trifle absurd hours later after reflecting upon my own personal virtues and others’ misconduct. Now mind you, terribly insidious reader, that the events to which I regale you of may not be a verbatim record of the proceedings but the facts and dialogue are upheld by the highest merits of truth. Natch.

As I was minding my business; counting ceiling tiles or whatever the hell it is I do during moments of disinterest in life, I noticed a woman walking past with a armful of newspapers. She approached a bench and rested the papers there. She walked maybe ten feet away and bought a drink out of a vending machine then picked up her stuff and walked away. I thought nothing of it, however close I may have been to her at the moment I was far too busy with the 785 tiles above me. Another woman, who I knew as well as you could know a co-worker, walked over to where the previous woman had set her newspapers down and picked up a wad of cash. I saw this happen. She walked over to me, with utter happiness, and counted out the bills. $112. Quite a bit of money to be so casual about misplacing. I told her to hold onto it or maybe even take it down to the security office that functioned out of our work place, but she thought differently. She replied saying that there was essentially no way for her to get caught. I argued that it was wrong to do and that it was far too much to assume she could get away with. Alright, I’m not a decent judge of character or let alone “one to talk”, but what the hell is wrong with an individual when she, during the course of several hours, returned to the spot no less than five times to look in the same place and question bystanders whether or not they had seen the money.

When the culprit was questioned, twice, she bare faced lied and said she hadn’t seen a single thing. For the rest of the day I badgered her to do the right thing; return the money. Say someone found it and confessed. She won’t ask questions. What would your children say? It doesn’t even belong to her, that’s money from her workplace, now SHE’S in trouble.

 Granted. The careless twit may have deserved this lesson but how callous can a person get? Again, I’m not saying it’s surprising, but the next time you’re faced with a coercive situation where morals are jeopardized for something feeble and unimportant yet desired, question you’re own integrity if you have the will or time to do so. You might be just as disgusted as I am. You might even find you’re just as hideous inside as the rest of us.

Welcome to cathartic dissolution… Empathy becomes apathy and we’re all about the time off from work.

 

Dig it.

Injustice For All -Speeding Tickets-

It’s alarming; the fatigued law system reinventing itself with such a vicious clench that it actually rings in my ears and leaves me lost in oblivious thought. This America we live in, work for, fight for and sometimes die for is slowly erasing our freedoms. With the waging wars in foreign countries and semi-civil wars raging around us it can often be difficult to separate truth from a full out, bastardized lie. I say our freedoms are slowly being erased because, although it seems like the ante has been upped recently, it actually has been long coming and ‘slowly’ gaining momentum. It seems Arizona is the hotspot for this Gestapo-esque encroachment of the principle beliefs of what America used to stand for and harbor for all to see. Within our humble little state alone we have taken abuse in many forms. From the esteemed Sheriff’s half-witted subpoenas relating directly to your publication to the high strung Janet Napolitano. She’s a monster, a civil rights thief.

Her latest crusade against freedom is outright indecent; proposing to equip a vast majority of roadways, traffic stops, and probably public restrooms with state of the art traffic cameras to monitor speed in an effort to “cause less accidents”. This is not a matter of safer roads; it’s not in her best interest to spend large sums of money on this equipment… Or is it? She openly admitted during the same conference from which she declared this bank buster that the income gross from speeding tickets around the valley is in excess of seventeen million dollars during 2006 in Scottsdale alone. Outrageous. That’s a sporting feather she’s putting in her cap with each indignity she springs on us.

Ironically, I had read about her jaunt on the very day I received a speeding ticket in the mail. There I was, caught on camera – high resolution and glorious quality. The ticket set me back one hundred and sixty one dollars for driving fifty four in a forty mile per hour zone; the little stretch after the signal lights on Priest Rd. heading southbound just past University Dr. I was enraged, I remember when it happened. I thought I was safe when I’d sped through the intersection, the light was turning red from yellow and as all drivers know – you either have to brace for the revving engine or brace for impact from the driver behind you as you awkwardly brake suddenly. At a speed greater than reasonable or prudent; the accusation.

Making my way home from the daily commute today, I had the level headedness to confront the same situation in a different manner. I had the opportunity to go for it just as the yellow flashed, I thought “why not, let’s see how this goes”. Sure enough, I hit the brake pedal and watched as five cars around me and in front of me failed to reduce speed before running over the sensors. Cha-ching, five fat royalty checks are deposited in Napolitano’s private bank account, oh yeah, and the Arizona’s take a penny leave a penny tray gets a shiny nickel.